"Turbo Encabulator" the Original

This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.

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[Digimaul]

@recovering16

In it's time, yes this was serious... since then though we've established that the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance does not scale linearly with the current polarity required by modern flux inversion systems. It's not that the theory wasn't sound, simply that they had no idea that our reliance on mono-polarization in transistor architecture would result in an impasse between the competing standards.

I'll admit it sounds silly looking back, but this was solid science

[merpine]

I worked on many industrials and commercials with Bud in Detroit, from 1977 to 1992. By that time the microcassette recorder had come along, He would record an entire script into the recorder, run the earpiece up and then read it back to himself, automatically becoming an expert. You would frame him slightly off center, so as not to see the earpiece. Every ‘talent’ since has followed in his footsteps. Thanks to You Tube, the Turbo Encabulator lives..btw is Bud still around...

[FantasmaBAnco]

What... the... fuck?! Sounds like something you'd hear Scotty on the Enterprise say.

[bubbles7361]

My understanding is that the patents for the Turbo Encabulator were purchased and suppressed by the oil companies in order to maintain their profits. As a people, we must rise up and fight this financial slavery the corporation overlords want to keep the working class people of the world in. Stand up, and shout to the four corners of the earth, so they will have no choice by to hear us in their ivory towers: "I want my Turbo Encabulator!!!"

[Dfinnley]

no sound - so I have absolutely no idea what a Turbo Encabulator is. Something to do with transmissions.

[SegmentedTurner]

I think the main reason this never was produced was due to the severe production limitations caused by the rarity of the base ore required to make enough Unobtainium necessary for any meaningful production quantities. Also, once it was discovered that chronic exposure to the ore causes rectal inversion, often leading to cranial-rectal coupling with the obvious next step to a career in politics, the FDA banned it from industry.

[Prestologs]

I was working in Truck R&D when this first came out, and I'm still laughing. Classic!

[ReaperAHHH]

Whaa

[nitrolx]

Pure gold!

[DrDeathDefying]

But will it blend?

[Esona]

I won't lie. I was totally lost until I heard "Dingle-arm" at 1:31 ... Then I finally clued in, lol

[bigflix22]

Can someone upload an English version